The Symbiosis Between Automation and Engineering
A little while ago Steve Beaver wrote a post titled “Is Automation Killing The Engineering?” In the post, Steve ponders whether the increased use of automation in today’s data centers is killing...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: The Future of VLANs
It’s interesting to me how much the idea of a VLAN has invaded the consciousness of data center IT professionals. Data center folks primarily tasked with managing compute workloads are nearly as...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: DIY Network Virtualization?
Following on the heels of this week’s VMware NSX announcement at VMworld 2013, I had someone contact me about a statement this person had heard. The statement claimed NSX was nothing more than a...
View ArticleCrossing the Threshold
Last week while attending the CloudStack Collaboration Conference in my home city of Denver, I had a bit of a realization. I wanted to share it here in the hopes that it might serve as an encouragement...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: Handling Career Evolution
As IT pros at the “cutting edge” of technology and industry change, I think sometimes we forget that not everyone has the same mindset toward learning, growth, and career evolution. That’s especially...
View ArticleThinking About Intel Rack-Scale Architecture
You may have heard of Intel Rack-Scale Architecture (RSA), a new approach to designing data center hardware. This is an idea that was discussed extensively a couple of weeks ago at Intel Developer...
View ArticleSelf-Documenting Systems?
I’ve been in Singapore this past week, wrapping up the week by speaking at the inaugural Singapore VMUG User Conference. While at the User Conference, I had the opportunity to attend a session by John...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: Does Docker on Windows Matter?
Nigel Poulton recently posted an article titled “ESXi vs. Hyper-V - Could Docker Support Be Significant,” in which he contemplates whether Microsoft’s announcement of Docker support on Windows will be...
View ArticleThoughts on Luminus Networks
Late last week, Cyrus Durgin from Luminus Networks published an article on SDx Central titled “The (R)evolution of Network Operations.” You may notice that my name is mentioned at the bottom of the...
View ArticleThinking Out Loud: The Future of Kubernetes
I’ve just wrapped up KubeCon/CloudNativeCon 2016 in Seattle, WA. There’s no doubt the Kubernetes community is active and engaged, and the project itself is charging forward. As both the community and...
View ArticleThoughts on AWS re:Invent Day 1
As I wrap up Day 1 of AWS re:Invent 2016 in Las Vegas (can I consider today to be day 1?), I wanted to capture a quick summary of thoughts about the sessions, the content, the attendees, and the event...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on the Docker-Kubernetes Announcement
Today at DockerCon EU, Docker announced that the next version of Docker (and its upstream open source project, the Moby Project) will feature integration with Kubernetes (see my liveblog of the day 1...
View ArticleOn Thinking About Infrastructure as Code
I just finished reading Cindy Sridharan’s excellent post titled “Effective Mental Models for Code and Systems,” and some of the points Sridharan makes immediately jumped out to me—not for “traditional”...
View ArticleThinking and Learning About API Design
In July of 2018 I talked about Polyglot, a very simple project I’d launched whose only purpose was simply to bolster my software development skills. Work on Polyglot has been sporadic at best, coming...
View ArticleMac, iPad, or Both?
Both Jason Snell and John Gruber, both stalwarts in the Apple journalism world, have recently weighed in on this topic. Jason says he’s given up on the iPad-only travel dream; John says he keeps...
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